Non-Representational Theory: Space | politics | affect

into social science accounts of the city a thread of understanding which has for too long been left to wither, a tradition which ...

spite. It is ourselves turning back on ourselves. It is the thin veneer of altruism at its thinnest. But I want to go farther th ...

normalcy which at the same time very often leads to everyday violence. Here I want to draw on the provocative work of writers li ...

But it is not difficult to argue that romantic love is also oppressive because it blots out so much of the affective else which ...

the intimacy of daily life: people want to be both overwhelmed and omnipotent, caring and aggressive, known and incognito’ (Berl ...

amongst youth, in times on the point of changing, in moments of creative expression, and so on. Using this framework amongst oth ...

In other words, I want to think of kindness as a social and aesthetic technology of belonging to a situation, rather than as an ...

So, as an envoi, I want to highlight four of the sites – sites which can be built upon – at which these kinds of gatherings can ...

something to others, will be responded to by them, will help build a common mood or tone that will color everyone’s actions. (Ta ...

It does not necessarily do anything to lessen social divides.^36 But friendship can also form a kind of moral community, whose p ...

10 Turbulent passions Towards an understanding of the affective spaces of political performance Why did the chicken cross the ro ...

Affect has, of course, become a term which is sprinkled through many recent writings, often adding nothing much more than a mere ...

changes, as in a whiff of the room’s atmosphere, some longer lasting. In other words, the transmission of affect, if only for an ...

fire of pure opposition burns’, as Sloterdijk (in Funcke 2005: 5) aptly puts it, which then provides, simply through its existen ...

surprise, fear, anger, disgust, contempt, sadness, and joy. The affect programs are short-term stereotypical responses involving ...

In terms of our relations with others, Tomkins asked us to think of the contagious nature of a yawn, smile or blush. It is trans ...

least take the biological seriously as important elements of affect which cannot be either wished away, shoved into a box marked ...

interpreted by many as a major evolutionary leap; cooking provides a short cut to extra energy and can be thought of as a new el ...

can teach us about the diverse range of registers of communication bodies have. For example, take the case of ectohormones^9 or ...

make the possibility of relevant novelty matter, that rely on the irreducibility of possibility, ‘transforming potentiality into ...